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Stronger, Fitter Usman Khawaja Set For Boxing Day Test

Khawaja playing against New Zealand in Test Match

Usman Khawaja trusts his hamstrings are more grounded than
they have been for a long time, after he spent a month on the sidelines
recouping from a strain to one side hamstring. Khawaja endured the harm in the
second Test against New Zealand in Perth and is fixed to reappearance for the
Boxing Day Test against West Indies, in the wake of demonstrating his wellness
with a BBL hundred at the MCG on Sunday night.

Khawaja batted through the Sydney Thunder innings and
demonstrated his wonderful structure had not decreased notwithstanding missing
Australia's last two Tests. On Monday, he said he had recuperated well after
his unbeaten 109 of the past night.

"I'm stirred I made them bat time," he said.
"To score a hundred in a T20 diversion is not a simple thing to do, so I'm
just exceptionally content with how things are working out. Be that as it may,
there's still a great deal of work to do as such I'm attempting to hold my head
down. I feel okay, simply typical, general soreness ... I inspired myself
really hard, as far as my hammy recovery, as far as my running, as far as my
molding work.

"My limits are categorically more grounded than they
have been in the most recent three years. The last testing I needed to do on
Friday was a hamstring quality test and my hamstrings came up more grounded
than they have been in the most recent three years. I did a ton of diligent
work in the most recent four weeks. The mentors up at the NCC pushed me really
hard. That is the thing that I expected to do."

Khawaja takes currently scored hundreds of centuries in his
last three changes - the Brisbane and Perth Tests in flaw of New Zealand, and
the T20 match on Sunday. He shows up a sure consideration against West Indies
for his first presence in a Boxing Day Test, which will vacation Australia's
selectors with the troublesome choice of whether to drop Shaun Marsh later his
182 in the Hobart Test, or starter Joe Burns.

Smolders scored a century against New Zealand at the Gabba
keeping in mind he made begins in each of the three Tests from that point
forward, he has not passed fifty since that innings. That implies there is a
solid risk that Khawaja will be requested that open with David Warner taking
place Boxing Day. Khawaja held Coach Darren Lehmann had needed him to drive himself
as far as possible in the BBL amusement to imitate as most ideal as the wear
and tear he would confront in a Test.

"I simply expected to go out there and play as I would
some other adjustment," he said. "I couldn't go available there and shot
to health caretaker it or not go 100% in light of the fact that I realize that
is not what Boot needs. I knew I'd done all the diligent work so I was
continually going to solid regardless.

"In twenty20, you're rending apiece ball. In Test match
cricket, you're not sprinting each ball so it's a tad bit distinctive. Five-day
cricket is an alternate kind of exhaustion. I'm truly happy with the way I've
pulled up after this diversion. It's a decent pointer of how I would pull up
following a five-day amusement."

Some of Australia's squad individuals have played BBL matches
over the previous week, while West Indies spent the vacation playing beside an
under-quality Victoria XI in a two-day match in Geelong.